Church of the Holy Apostles - Column Capital #3 (3D)

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Appellation Church of the Holy Apostles - Column Capital #3 (3D)
Address Thessaloníki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Coordinates (Lat, Lon) (40.64280 , 22.93743)
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This is a 3D model at various resolutions (ultra low, low, medium, high, RAW) of a Corinthian column capital from the western facade of the church of the Holy Apostles. The church, a UNESCO World Heritage Monument, is situated in the homonymous square in Thessaloniki, in the beginning of the modern Olympou Street. It lies south of the decumanus (Saint Demetrius Street), around 50 meters from the west city wall, near the Litea Gate, ruined today. Originally it was the katholikon (main church) of a sizeable monastery. Except for the church, little evidence remains still today from the original complex, such as parts of the precinct, a gateway to the south of the katholikon and a large cistern to its northwest. Initially the monastery covered an area of more than 10.000 square meters.
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Source Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Xanthi, (former Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI) )
Contacts Christodoulos Chamzas Principal Investigator Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece Professor
Actor Athanasios Tsaouselis, External Research Assistant
Actor Despoina Tsiafaki, Senior Researcher
Actor Anastasia Michailidou, External Research Assistant
Copyright Credit Line 09th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities, Ministry of Culture and Sports, Hellenic Republic
Europeana Rights Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
Spatial Thessaloniki - Holy Apostles
Protection Type Historical scheduled monument
Start Date 1310-01-01
End Date 1334-01-01
Period Name Late Byzantine Era
Materials mortar, pantile, stone, brick
Provenace The 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities refers to all matters concerning the safeguard and protection, the conservation, the reconstruction, the study and the publication of the monument.
Heritage Asset Type Byzantine, Katholika, Late Byzantine, Ιερός Ναός, Christianity, Χριστιανισμός, Orthodox Church, Αρχιτεκτονική, Churches, Architecture, Monuments, Ορθοδοξία, Εκκλησία, Θεσσαλονίκη, Monastery, Oriental Orthodox, Monasteries
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Name Ultra Low resolution 3D model of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Column Capital #3
Description This is a ultra low resolution 3D digital replica of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Corinthian Column Capital that is situated in the homonymous square in Thessaloniki, in the beginning of the modern Olympou Street. It lies south of the decumanus (Saint Demetrius Street), around 50 meters from the west city wall, near the Litea Gate, ruined today. Originally it was the katholikon (main church) of a sizeable monastery. Except for the church, little evidence remains still today from the original complex, such as parts of the precinct, a gateway to the south of the katholikon and a large cistern to its northwest. Initially the monastery covered an area of more than 10.000 square meters The monument was selected to be 3D digitised within the framework of the European Commission funded 3D-ICONS project by the Athena RC Xanthi's Division. It's exterior was captured in 3D using the Structure-From-Motion (SFM) and Dense Multi-View 3D Reconstruction (DMVR) methods. Aerial and terrestrial photoshooting sessions were performed during the winter of 2014 always during cloudy days. A total of four digitisation sessions were performed where each resulted a number of image sequences presenting the monument from different points of views. The terrestrial photoshooting sessions were implemented using camera tripods and custom monopods (3m-9m adaptive). We attempted to keep the distance between two terrestrial photoshooting points at 60cm. All aerial photoshooting was performed using a custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS. A pair of Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras with fixed 16mm and 20-50mm lenses were used. Agisoft PhotoScan (ver. 1.1) has been used for the production of monument's 3D digital replica. Although, flight paths were designed they have been performed manually due to bad GPS reception (high buildings around the monument). Furthermore, the calibration of the cameras was performed by the software itself. A total of 4090 photos were used to generated the 3D model. The processing of the image sequences was performed on two computer systems (CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit). Additionally, empirical measurements between strong (in terms of visibility) feature points on the surface of the monument were performed and used to scale the 3D model. The model is aimed for visualisation purposes in low end hardware and it is stored in the X3D file format that carries colour information using the texture mapping approach. It has been digitised using a multi-image based 3D reconstruction approach (Structure from Motion/Multi-Image Dense Stereo 3D Reconstruction).
Type 3D
Format X3D
Extent 7 MB
Contacts Anestis Koutsoudis Principal Investigator Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Multimedia Departent, Xanthi Branch
Actor Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member
Actor Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member
Actor Vasilis Liakopoulos, External Collaborator
Copyrights Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Xanthi, (Former Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI) ) Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
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Name Low resolution 3D model of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Column Capital #3
Description This is a low resolution 3D digital replica of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Corinthian Column Capital that is situated in the homonymous square in Thessaloniki, in the beginning of the modern Olympou Street. It lies south of the decumanus (Saint Demetrius Street), around 50 meters from the west city wall, near the Litea Gate, ruined today. Originally it was the katholikon (main church) of a sizeable monastery. Except for the church, little evidence remains still today from the original complex, such as parts of the precinct, a gateway to the south of the katholikon and a large cistern to its northwest. Initially the monastery covered an area of more than 10.000 square meters The monument was selected to be 3D digitised within the framework of the European Commission funded 3D-ICONS project by the Athena RC Xanthi's Division. It's exterior was captured in 3D using the Structure-From-Motion (SFM) and Dense Multi-View 3D Reconstruction (DMVR) methods. Aerial and terrestrial photoshooting sessions were performed during the winter of 2014 always during cloudy days. A total of four digitisation sessions were performed where each resulted a number of image sequences presenting the monument from different points of views. The terrestrial photoshooting sessions were implemented using camera tripods and custom monopods (3m-9m adaptive). We attempted to keep the distance between two terrestrial photoshooting points at 60cm. All aerial photoshooting was performed using a custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS. A pair of Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras with fixed 16mm and 20-50mm lenses were used. Agisoft PhotoScan (ver. 1.1) has been used for the production of monument's 3D digital replica. Although, flight paths were designed they have been performed manually due to bad GPS reception (high buildings around the monument). Furthermore, the calibration of the cameras was performed by the software itself. A total of 4090 photos were used to generated the 3D model. The processing of the image sequences was performed on two computer systems (CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit). Additionally, empirical measurements between strong (in terms of visibility) feature points on the surface of the monument were performed and used to scale the 3D model. The model is aimed for visualisation purposes in low end hardware and it is stored in the X3D file format that carries colour information using the texture mapping approach. It has been digitised using a multi-image based 3D reconstruction approach (Structure from Motion/Multi-Image Dense Stereo 3D Reconstruction).
Type 3D
Format X3D
Extent 7 MB
Contacts Anestis Koutsoudis Principal Investigator Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Multimedia Departent, Xanthi Branch
Actor Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member
Actor Vasilis Liakopoulos, External Collaborator
Actor Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member
Copyrights Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Xanthi, (former Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI) ) Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
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Name Medium resolution 3D model of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Column Capital #3
Description This is a medium resolution 3D digital replica of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Corinthian Column Capital that is situated in the homonymous square in Thessaloniki, in the beginning of the modern Olympou Street. It lies south of the decumanus (Saint Demetrius Street), around 50 meters from the west city wall, near the Litea Gate, ruined today. Originally it was the katholikon (main church) of a sizeable monastery. Except for the church, little evidence remains still today from the original complex, such as parts of the precinct, a gateway to the south of the katholikon and a large cistern to its northwest. Initially the monastery covered an area of more than 10.000 square meters. The monument was selected to be 3D digitised within the framework of the European Commission funded 3D-ICONS project by the Athena RC Xanthi's Division. It's exterior was captured in 3D using the Structure-From-Motion (SFM) and Dense Multi-View 3D Reconstruction (DMVR) methods. Aerial and terrestrial photoshooting sessions were performed during the winter of 2014 always during cloudy days. A total of four digitisation sessions were performed where each resulted a number of image sequences presenting the monument from different points of views. The terrestrial photoshooting sessions were implemented using camera tripods and custom monopods (3m-9m adaptive). We attempted to keep the distance between two terrestrial photoshooting points at 60cm. All aerial photoshooting was performed using a custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS. A pair of Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras with fixed 16mm and 20-50mm lenses were used. Agisoft PhotoScan (ver. 1.1) has been used for the production of monument's 3D digital replica. Although, flight paths were designed they have been performed manually due to bad GPS reception (high buildings around the monument). Furthermore, the calibration of the cameras was performed by the software itself. A total of 4090 photos were used to generated the 3D model. The processing of the image sequences was performed on two computer systems (CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit). Additionally, empirical measurements between strong (in terms of visibility) feature points on the surface of the monument were performed and used to scale the 3D model. The model is aimed for visualisation purposes in low end hardware and it is stored in the X3D file format that carries colour information using the texture mapping approach. It has been digitised using a multi-image based 3D reconstruction approach (Structure from Motion/Multi-Image Dense Stereo 3D Reconstruction).
Type 3D
Format X3D
Extent 28 MB
Contacts Anestis Koutsoudis Principal Investigator Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Multimedia Departent, Xanthi Branch
Actor Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member
Actor Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member
Actor Vasilis Liakopoulos, External Collaborator
Copyrights Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Xanthi, (former Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI) ) Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
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Name High resolution 3D model of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Column Capital #3
Description This is a high resolution 3D digital replica of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Corinthian Column Capital that is situated in the homonymous square in Thessaloniki, in the beginning of the modern Olympou Street. It lies south of the decumanus (Saint Demetrius Street), around 50 meters from the west city wall, near the Litea Gate, ruined today. Originally it was the katholikon (main church) of a sizeable monastery. Except for the church, little evidence remains still today from the original complex, such as parts of the precinct, a gateway to the south of the katholikon and a large cistern to its northwest. Initially the monastery covered an area of more than 10.000 square meters. The monument was selected to be 3D digitised within the framework of the European Commission funded 3D-ICONS project by the Athena RC Xanthi's Division. It's exterior was captured in 3D using the Structure-From-Motion (SFM) and Dense Multi-View 3D Reconstruction (DMVR) methods. Aerial and terrestrial photoshooting sessions were performed during the winter of 2014 always during cloudy days. A total of four digitisation sessions were performed where each resulted a number of image sequences presenting the monument from different points of views. The terrestrial photoshooting sessions were implemented using camera tripods and custom monopods (3m-9m adaptive). We attempted to keep the distance between two terrestrial photoshooting points at 60cm. All aerial photoshooting was performed using a custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS. A pair of Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras with fixed 16mm and 20-50mm lenses were used. Agisoft PhotoScan (ver. 1.1) has been used for the production of monument's 3D digital replica. Although, flight paths were designed they have been performed manually due to bad GPS reception (high buildings around the monument). Furthermore, the calibration of the cameras was performed by the software itself. A total of 4090 photos were used to generated the 3D model. The processing of the image sequences was performed on two computer systems (CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit). Additionally, empirical measurements between strong (in terms of visibility) feature points on the surface of the monument were performed and used to scale the 3D model. The model is aimed for visualisation purposes in low end hardware and it is stored in the X3D file format that carries colour information using the texture mapping approach. It has been digitised using a multi-image based 3D reconstruction approach (Structure from Motion/Multi-Image Dense Stereo 3D Reconstruction).
Type 3D
Format X3D
Extent 91 MB
Contacts Anestis Koutsoudis Principal Investigator Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Multimedia Departent, Xanthi Branch
Actor Vasilis Liakopoulos, External Collaborator
Actor Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member
Actor Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member
Copyrights Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Xanthi, (former Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI) ) Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
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Name 3D model of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Column Capital #3 (Raw data)
Description This is the raw data resolution 3D digital replica of the Church of the Holy Apostles - Corinthian Column Capital, that is situated in the homonymous square in Thessaloniki, in the beginning of the modern Olympou Street. It lies south of the decumanus (Saint Demetrius Street), around 50 meters from the west city wall, near the Litea Gate, ruined today. Originally it was the katholikon (main church) of a sizeable monastery. Except for the church, little evidence remains still today from the original complex, such as parts of the precinct, a gateway to the south of the katholikon and a large cistern to its northwest. Initially the monastery covered an area of more than 10.000 square meters. The monument was selected to be 3D digitised within the framework of the European Commission funded 3D-ICONS project by the Athena RC Xanthi's Division. It's exterior was captured in 3D using the Structure-From-Motion (SFM) and Dense Multi-View 3D Reconstruction (DMVR) methods. Aerial and terrestrial photoshooting sessions were performed during the winter of 2014 always during cloudy days. A total of four digitisation sessions were performed where each resulted a number of image sequences presenting the monument from different points of views. The terrestrial photoshooting sessions were implemented using camera tripods and custom monopods (3m-9m adaptive). We attempted to keep the distance between two terrestrial photoshooting points at 60cm. All aerial photoshooting was performed using a custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS. A pair of Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras with fixed 16mm and 20-50mm lenses were used. Agisoft PhotoScan (ver. 1.1) has been used for the production of monument's 3D digital replica. Although, flight paths were designed they have been performed manually due to bad GPS reception (high buildings around the monument). Furthermore, the calibration of the cameras was performed by the software itself. A total of 4090 photos were used to generated the 3D model. The processing of the image sequences was performed on two computer systems (CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit). Additionally, empirical measurements between strong (in terms of visibility) feature points on the surface of the monument were performed and used to scale the 3D model. The model is aimed for research purposes in high end hardware setups and it is stored in the PLY file format that carries colour information using the texture mapping approach. It has been digitised using a multi-image based 3D reconstruction approach (Structure from Motion/Multi-Image Dense Stereo 3D Reconstruction). Resolution: ~3cm (between consecutive points distance in raw data model)
Type 3D
Format PLY
Contacts Anestis Koutsoudis Principal Investigator Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Multimedia Departent, Xanthi Branch
Actor Vasilis Liakopoulos, External Collaborator
Actor Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member
Actor Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member
Copyrights Athena R.I.C., ILSP, Xanthi, (former Cultural and Educational Technology Institute (CETI) ) Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)
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Name Digitisation of the Church of the Holy Apostles
Description The monument was selected to be 3D digitised within the framework of the European Commission funded 3D-ICONS project by the Athena RC Xanthi Division. Its exterior was captured in 3D using the Structure-From-Motion (SFM) and Dense Multi-View 3D Reconstruction (DMVR) methods. Aerial and terrestrial photoshooting sessions were performed during the winter of 2014 always during cloudy days. A total of four digitisation sessions were performed where each resulted a number of image sequences presenting the monument from different points of views. The terrestrial photoshooting sessions were implemented using camera tripods and custom monopods (3m-9m adaptive). We attempted to keep the distance between two terrestrial photoshooting points at 60cm. All aerial photoshooting was performed using a custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS. A pair of Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras with fixed 16mm and 20-50mm lenses were used. Agisoft PhotoScan (ver. 1.1) has been used for the production of monument 3D digital replica. Although, flight paths were designed they have been performed manually due to bad GPS reception (high buildings around the monument). Furthermore, the calibration of the cameras was performed by the software itself. A total of 4090 photos were used to generated the 3D model. The processing of the image sequences was performed on two computer systems (CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit). Additionally, empirical measurements between strong (in terms of visibility) feature points on the surface of the monument were performed and used to scale the 3D model.
Purpose To create a 3D digital replica of the monument
Techinques Data Processing
Equipment 20-50mm lens,Meshlab (version 1.3.2),A custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS,PC , CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit,Custom Camera Monopods,Manfrotto Camera tripods,Blender,Fixed 16mm lens,Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras,Agisoft PhotoScan (version 1.1)
Actor Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member
Actor Vasilis Liakopoulos, External Collaborator
Actor Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member
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Name Generation of purpose specific 3D models based on the raw 3D data of the Church of the Holy Apostles
Description Decimated (simplified in terms of geometry and texture map resolution) versions of the primary 3D model (raw data) has been created in order to allow the visualisation of different quality versions of the 3D digital replica on various platforms. Low Resolution Model: 75K Facets - Image Texture Size:1024^2 Medium Resolution Model: 250K Facets - Image Texture Size:4096^2 High Resolution Model: 1M Facets - Image Texture Size:8192^2
Purpose To provide a 3D model that meets different devices hardware specifications
Techinques Data Processing,Data Processing
Equipment 20-50mm lens,Meshlab (version 1.3.2),A custom hexacopter equipped with gimbal remote controlled two axis tilt-roll camera base, first-person view (FPV) and GPS,PC , CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit,Custom Camera Monopods,Manfrotto Camera tripods,Blender,Fixed 16mm lens,Samsung NX1000 20MP compact DSLR cameras,Agisoft PhotoScan (version 1.1),Agisoft PhotoScan (version 1.1),Meshlab (version 1.3.2),PC , CPU IntelCoreI74820K 3.7Ghz, 64GB RAM, Radeon R9 290X, Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit
Actor Anestis Koutsoudis, individual, Digitisation team member
Actor Athanasios Tsaouselis, External Research Assistant
Actor Fotis Arnaoutoglou, individual, Digitisation team member